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US President-elect Donald Trump is moving into the White House on Friday, yet the world has already changed. The niceties have been cast aside, political rhetoric has assumed a rawness that until now was associated only with military action, and political correctness has been replaced by directness in the conveyance of the political message.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a world without nuclear weapons at the UN on Wednesday. He urged a multilateral system based on equality among nations large and small.

“Nuclear weapons should be completely prohibited and destroyed over time to make the world free of nuclear weapons“, Xi said.

Shareholders of Greece's electricity utility Public Power Corporation (PPC) approved late on Tuesday the transfer of a 51 percent stake in the power grid operator ADMIE, part of a spin-off scheme, which is a major term in Greece's bailout program.

A total of 24 companies have taken specifications for Turkey's 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, planned to be completed and opened in 1923, Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan has said.

Four of the companies are from Japan, three are from China, two are from South Korea and one is from Italy, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Jan. 18. 

A Chinese official has admitted his province falsified its economic data for years, state media said on Jan. 18, as the country prepares to release its national growth estimates for 2016.

Turkey and its neighbors are getting ready for the new host of the White House. But the signs are confusing. Donald Trump's policies sound like they will be remarkably different from his predecessor's.

But when you scratch the surface and dig deeper, they sound like more of the same - at least in their foreign relations' agendas.

For the first time a representative from the EU attended as an observer, as well as representatives from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from Austria, Belarus, Greece and Switzerland.

The searches in the Indian Ocean for the Malaysian Airlines MH370 flight have been officially called off after three years.

According to an announcement made by China, Australia and Malaysia, although the most advanced technological equipment were used, the airplane was not located.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Tuesday in Davos, Switzerland, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.

They spoke about Zelezara Smederevo steelworks, now owned by the Chinese company Hesteel, "and about future joint projects," the Serbian government said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping presented himself as a champion of globalization on Jan. 17, lecturing the world elite in Davos on the dangers of protectionism and the futility of trade wars.